She does so by concentrating on that generic moment in which questions of belief are most agonistically posed, the moment of conversion to some practice of belief, a moment that marks the convert as someone as capable of dissent as of assent and thus as someone engaged in practices of cultural criticism, knowledge production, and self-fashioning.

The title, "Borges and I," refers secondly to Bidart, too, and is suggestive of where Bidart parts way with Eliot or Harold Bloom in his view of tradition; he doesn't agonize agonistically, but in the good company of others - lovers, artists, the dead.

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